ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 6l 



forbidden. Warm difcutient fomentations are 

 required, and the moft efficacious method is 

 that before recommended, of fetting the- leg 

 into the liquid, as high as the knee. In cafe 

 of ftrained fmews, caufe the accuflomed tenfion 

 and inflammation to fubfide by the ufe of the 

 above fomentations, if poffible, previous to the 

 exhibibition of aftringents. Or ufe the fo- 

 mentation in the morning, and the reftringent 

 , embrocation at night, agreeable to difcretion. 

 Rub the faturnine or flrengthening embroca- 

 tion, flrong or mild according to the demand, 

 well, and for a long time, into the pallern 

 joints, along the back finews, and under the 

 knees and hocks. It may be ufed either cold, 

 or blood-warm, and about a tea-cup full, if 

 (Irong, fuffices for a leg. Hunters, after a hard 

 chace, would be infinitely benefited by fuch 

 treatment, the mofh fcrupulpus and minute care 

 being previoufly had to free their legs and paf- 

 terns from thorns, and fmall prickles, which 

 they may have caught. As has been already 

 hinted, in the Firft Volume, page 184, and in 

 the difcourfe on hackney horfes, every oppor- 

 tunity of leifure ought to be eagerly feized on, 

 to praftife thefe falutary meafures of preven- 

 tion, which with the joint affiilance of the 



LOOSE STABLE, OCCASIONAL RUNS AT 



GRASS, and timely evacuations from 



MILD cathartic MEDICINES, would have 



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